Hello Love

 Happy Thursday, everyone!  I have a cute little Valentine card today; it uses the FMS sketch as well as the color palette from CAS Colours & Sketches:

What fun colors together!  So here we go:

My little hearts are from the retired Give It a Whirl, and they were "hung" on a little banner from Scrapbook.com:

I embossed the bottom portion of my white panel with the Dotty Hearts embosing folder, then added a sentiment from Good Greetings, punched out with an oval punch:

I am also going to enter this at the JUGS challenge for this week, which is to use a heart!

Thanks for visiting today!  

One of Cassidy's Christmas presents last year was to go to a University of Connecticut basketball game to watch her favorite player, Paige Bueckers.  She really enjoyed it!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Good Greetings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Melon Mambo, Summer Splash, Real Red, Basic Black
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Scrapbook.com), Give It a Whirl Dies (ret), Dotty Hearts Embossing Folder (ret), Small Oval Punch (ret)

Minimalist Purple Thanks

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Yay, the middle of the week is here!  I have a zippity-quick CAS card that took longer to look up the age of the stamps than it did to actually stamp them!  Yes, it's for the Retro Rubber challenge, which is a color palette, as well as the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

So here we go:

My foliage is from Little Delights (2021), stamped in Blackberry Bliss and Highland Heather, with the little spots from Label Me Bold (2020), stamped in Purple Posey:

The sentiment is also from Label Me Bold, (which I now realize is in the wrong spot!), and fussy cut.  It went on a Purple Posey card base, and a sentiment from Little Delights was stamped inside as well! I was going to add a sequin but decided to keep it really clean and simple!

I really like the simplicity of this!  

An out-of-town friend came and spent the night last week and when she got in her car early Saturday morning, found these on her window:

Aren't they pretty?  These beautiful crystals reminded me of something I read in my Bible study yesterday:  "So, enjoy the art around you, but as you do, may your heart run to the artist behind the art." Paul David Tripp

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Delights (ret), Label Me Bold (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Purple Posy (ret)
Ink	Blackberry Bliss, Highland Heather, Purple Posy (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools

Vintage Stockings

Hello, stamping friends! Happy Friday!  This will be quick as we are having our family Thanksgiving tomorrow and I am making creamed mushrooms!  Did you know the area of PA in which I live is the mushroom capital of the world?  I am sure you didn't!  Anyway, we don't eat them regularly but we do like them for the holidays! Okay, enough about mushrooms! I have a CAS Christmas card today, it fulfills the CAS Colour & Sketches sketch as well as the Inspired By challenge of these cute stockings:

I knew just the stamp I wanted to use for this card....the October Kit of the Month from Unity had some adorable stockings!  Here we go:

This was super fun and easy! I stamped the stockings on Crumb Cake cardstock in Misty Moonlight ink and fussy-cut them out, then sponged them with Pecan Pie ink for a vintage look.  The sentiment is from Greetings of the Season (my new favorite), stamped in Night of Navy on some Country Woods DSP:

For some extra interest, I embossed just the lower portion of the card with the Distressed Tile embossing folder, I really like how it adds a vintage feel!  I also added a Crumb Cake star that I enhanced with a gold Wink of Stella pen, as well as some Natural Tones Linen Thread in Night of Navy too.  More Greetings of the Season on the inside:

I haven't counted yet, but I am getting close to the number of Christmas cards I need to send out this year!  How about you?  Have you started your cards yet....the holidays will be here before we know it!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Greetings of the Season, Sweet Bliss of Christmas (Unity KOTM)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Naturals Linen Thread, Gold Wink of Stella (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Distressed Tile Embossing Folder, Sponge Dauber, Star Punch (ret)

CASC&S548 x Two

Happy Monday, peeps!  Today is stamp club but I just had to share a couple of cards I made over the weekend!  First, let me say that the stamping community is so wonderful; if you give other stampers their due credit, you usually can "borrow" their ideas and make them your own!  Amanda Mertz at Did You Stamp Today? is one of my favorite stampers and she had a card recently that I thought I would CASE (Copy And Share Everything) with a current color challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches:

You can see her card HERE. I wanted to re-create that card using the above colors, and here's my take on it:

I used the Iconic Imagery set, punches and dies, and the challenge colors.  I love it, but it wasn't quite clean and simple enough for me to enter, in my opinion!

And here's the inside:

SO, I went back to the drawing board to make a new card!  This time I used Golden Greenery and Peaceful Season in the challenge colors, along with the Birch Wood embossing folder:

I finally mastered a trick to get these double die-cuts to line up easily (maybe I'll share that in a later post):

And here's the inside:

But that's not the end of the story!  Yesterday, Amanda posted THIS card on her blog; a little bit different than my card, but we were on the same wave length for sure.  And honestly, I made this card before seeing hers!  Anyway, I think my second card is sufficiently CAS for the challenge, so in it goes!

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details for Both Cards—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Season, Iconic Imagery, Golden Greenery, Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Real Red, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce, Basic White
Ink	Real Red, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensional, Festive Pearls, Red Satin Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Birch Wood Embossing Folder, Golden Greenery Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Various Circle Punches (ret), White Gel Pen (Posca)

CASC&S545 Celebrate

Happy Thursday, peeps! Gosh, this week has been busy! I feel like I am in a whirlwind!  Thankfully, my card today was quick and EASY!  I am giving Joanne at CAS Colours & Sketches a nod because she gave me the idea to use another image from my Joyful Images Ephemera pack, since I had it on my desk already from yesterday's card!  Here is their sketch:

I loved this little bell, and I already had a Very Vanilla circle diecut with the Spotlight on Nature dies, so I put them all together for this:

The red horizontal panel is also from the Ephemera pack; it's two piece adhered together.  I did add a little Garden Green circle behind the diecut circle; a partial sentiment from Simply Said, and I adhered it to a Very Vanilla card that was embossed with a retired embossing folder.  I cut the card down to 4" wide so that the piece hanging over the side would still fit in a standard envelope!  My final addition was a wee little sequin from my stash!  Easy peasy! And since this week's Krafty Chicks challenge is CAS, I am entering it there as well!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Garden Green, Joyful Images Ephemera Pack
Ink	Garden Green
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequin from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Boughs & Berries EF (ret)

Feel Better Soon

Happy Thursday, peeps! I have a simple card (hope it's CAS enough) for the FMS sketch as well as the colors from the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge:

I pulled out the Wanted to Say Dies and here's what I came up with:

I created my sentiment with Basic White and Misty Moonlight cardstocks, added a Blackberry Bliss and Basic White mat, and there are little flowers and leaves in the die set as well, so I cut some of them and added a bit of baker's twine and some Smoky Slate pearls:

The background DSP is from Country Lace!  It's always good to have some get well cards on hand!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Mossy Meadow, Blackberry Bliss, Country Lace DSP
Ink
Accessories	Smoky Slate Pearls, Mossy Meadow Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Countryside Corners Dies, Wanted to Say Dies, Fun Patterns Embossing Folder

Hello Fall with Iconic Imagery

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Hope you're having a good week so far!  It definitely does not feel like August here in SE PA, but that's fine with me!  Since it feels more fall-like, I decided to play with some fall images from the new Iconic Imagery bundle.  I used the colors from Hand-Stamped Sentiments (gulp, Wild Wheat is in there!) as well as the fun sketch from CAS Colour & Sketches:

So here we go:

I diecut three leaves from Very Vanilla cardstock and stamped them with the challenge colors, stamping off for the centers.  A few little sprigs from the same die set were cut with matching colors, tucked behind each leaf on a Spotlight on Nature circle...the one that looks like a paper plate! Not sure if I am happy with that look but it is what it is!  I also embossed another Vanilla panel with the Leaf Fall embossing folder to add to the fall feel:

The sentiment is from Choose Happy and it just happens to fit in the wee little banner die featured in Iconic Imagery as well! Serentipitous!  A few more leaves and a pretty sentiment from Sketched Butterflies went on the inside:

Off to the library to get some more books! I just read a great book and I must say that I LOVED it! It was called Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen....very cleverly done, intriguing story, twists and turns, and a happy ending!  I also read The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander! It was cute too!  

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Iconic Imagery, Choose Happy, Sketched Butterflies
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Moody Mauve, Wild Wheat, Blackberry Bliss
Ink	Moody Mauve, Wild Wheat, Blackberry Bliss
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Iconic Imagery Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Leaf Fall Embossing Folder

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Halfway through the week! I have a fun little Christmas card for you today; it uses the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch as well as the Color Hues palette of red and green:

And here we go:

I used images and the sentiment from the retired Little Treats, stamped in Real Red and Emerald Envy, then diecut and mounted on a scalloped frame.  The pine branch is from W+9.  I added an embossed layer of polka dots just for fun!

The inside was stamped with a sentiment from Wrapped in Christmas and another little ornament from the Little Treats set:

What a fun little sketch!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

You have been raised to life with Christ, so set your hearts on the things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on hus throne at the right side of God.  Keep your minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth.  Colossians 3:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Treats (ret), Wrapped in Christmas (ret), Merry & Bright (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Real Red, Emerald Envy (ret)
Accessories	Red Rhinestone (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Little Treat Bag Dies (ret), Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret), Scalloped Rectangle Dies, Rectangle Dies (both Nestabilities), Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen)

CASC&S537 Thanks So Much

Happy Friday, happy holiday weekend! Woohoo!  I have a very quick card today for the Clean & Simple Colors & Sketches challengenull; I am not sure it's CAS enough, but I'm going with it, LOL!  Here's the sketch:

And here we go:

Almost all the elements on this card were pieces that I had left over from another project, unused!  The florals from Country Flowers were stamped in black and watercolored with Blueberry Bushel ink.  The bold sentiment is from Love For You; I had the stamped "much" and the Basic Black silhouette diecut in my "scrap" bin.  The thanks sentiment is from Latte Love!  My banners are from Countryside Inn and Country Woods, and I added a few Neutrals sequins.

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"How clearly the sky reveals God's glory!  How plainly it shows what he has done!  Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.  No speech or words are used, no sound is heard; yet their message goes out to all the world and is heard to the ends of the earth." 

Psalm 19:1-4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Love For All, Country Flowers, Latte Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Countryside Inn DSP, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Neutral Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Love For All Dies, Country Flowers Dies